"To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery"
Know
  • No gum is allowed during an exam
  • Copy not just on exams, but also by cutting and pasting from the Internet and sharing of homework online like music files — educators have responded with their own efforts to crack down.
  • Fifty-five percent of colleges and universities now use such a service, according to the Campus Computing Survey.




Want to know
  • "using, say, a pen with a hidden camera, in order to help a friend who will take the test later — is easy to spot."
  • Can students trick turnitin.com?


Learn

  • The best-known service, Turnitin.com
  • When a proctor sees something suspicious, he records the student’s real-time work at the computer and directs an overhead camera to zoom in, and both sets of images are burned onto a CD for evidence.